首页>課程>[CHES5104] Selected Themes on Chinese Literature II: Images of China>CHES5104

In this course, we will explore different genres of classical and modern Chinese literature, as well as the special characteristics of regional literary texts, including those from Hong Kong and Taiwan. We will discuss the way these texts are translated, promoted and distributed in the West by reading selected English translations of Chinese literature and relevant academic studies about the literary texts. Weekly topics will focus on the themes and authors of classical and modern texts, the individual translators of English versions and their translation strategy. Each of these topics will be approached from the historical context and the background of the authors as well as the methods of translation and the reception of Chinese literature in the West. Within this context, relevant theories such as cultural translation, foreignization, domestication, Otherness, as well as concepts of Orientalism, world literature and gender performativity will be introduced and applied.  

1. Introduction: Chinese Literature and Translation
2. Chinese Poetry and the Discourse of Chineseness
3. Diversity in the Liaozhai Zhiyi
4. Chinese Culture translated by Lin Yutang
5. Pastoralism in Modern Chinese Literature
6. Women in Chinese Literature I: China
7. Women in Chinese Literature II: Hong Kong *Guest Speaker Wong Yi
8. Yu Hua and Cultural Images of China
9. Global Storyteller: Mo Yan
10. Poetry from Taiwan *Guest Speaker: Prof. Nicholas Y. H. Wong
11. New Localism: Hong Kong